Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2022, Bulgaria's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 13.5% compared to 2021, reaching 991,265.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 173,314,724.

Bulgaria ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 27.1% (from 1,359,755 in 2017).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.